Holmes D. Wallace

Holmes Daniel Wallace (18 March 1824-17 July 1880) was a colonel of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Holmes Daniel Wallace was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1824 to a Yankee family, and he worked as a bookseller in the years before the American Civil War. When war broke out in 1861, Wallace raised a regiment of volunteers for the US Army and commanded it in the Army of the Mississippi, distinguishing himself at the Battle of Iuka in 1862. Wallace would lead his regiment during the campaigns in Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina before being mustered out of service in Kentucky in July 1865. Wallace returned to his bookstore, and he died in 1880 at the age of 56.